How to search Jar files using Windows Search?

Question

I believe back when we were on Win2K, Windows Search would search through Jar files to locate specific classes but this doesn't appear to work in XP. Does anyone know how to enable this in XP?

Note, to do the search in Win2K we just entered *.jar for the files and "ClassABC" for the search text string and the search would return any jar files containing class files where the title contained "ClassABC".

Answer 1

Add this to a text file, save file, change the extension to .reg, double click to add to registry and you should be ok...you can search on file name or content and it should show jars that have class names

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

The only thing left is to logout and log back into windows and it should work fine for you, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173 for more details